Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Earlier today I went to my friend office with my Compaq Presario loaded with Windows 7 RC.I was reading Long Zheng blog then. 1 interesting post in his blog is about Virtual WiFi or VWiFi in Windows 7. I'm not going explain what Virtual WiFi or VWiFi in detail.This is from Long Zheng blog

"In essence, how Virtual WiFi works is very similar to how virtualization works for operating systems which most people are familiar with - the transparent sharing of limited hardware resources to many operating systems. Virtual WiFi, abbreviated to VWiFi, is a software layer that abstracts the wireless LAN card hardware into multiple virtual adapters. The software handles the connections of each adapter to ensure every adapter has an opportunity to connect to their respective networks limited by time. The result is an operating system none-the-wiser and acts as if you have multiple WLAN hardware adapters working independently."Read the full article at istartedsomething.com

Here's what I want to share.On my Windows 7 desktop , I right click on Network then choose Properties. Then I choose Change Adapter Setting.I see just exactly what Long say in his blog post. The Virtual Wi-Fi. Microsoft Virtual Wi-Fi Miniport Adapter. Here are the screen shot.

I can't do much since I'm not connected to any wireless device at home. Maybe I should get a wireless adapter for my desktop pc so that I can do more testing.

still yet to see this being used. you cant bridge the wireless network adapter with its virtual network. i tried creating an ad-hoc network for another device to connect to but with the adhoc network waiting for users the normal connection to my router is disconnected. reconnecting to my router leaves the adhoc still waiting but although its shared there's no connectivity. also there seems to be no way to set a new wireless connect to a designated adapter